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The Premier Foundation

The Premier Foundation is an international christian nonprofit organization committed to being a voice for the disadvantaged.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.0MHuman Services$2.9MReligion$2.5MHousing & Shelter$975kInternational$643kHealth$350kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$63k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $2,144,390, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,304,579 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $160,189 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $775k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge$500,000
Meals on Wheels Collin County$425,000
The Hope Church of Detroit$381,890
USO-Texas$200,000
SafeHaven of Tarrant County$125,000
One Community Church Plano$100,000
The Samaritan Inn$100,000
The Christine DClario Foundation$100,000
Citychurch McKinney$100,000
Gamboa Union Ministries$50,000
Parkinson Voice Project Inc$25,000
The Community Food Pantry of McKinney$25,000
BLUE Missions Group$7,500
GMA Foundation$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%49ERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY (TX): $275k → 11%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%GIVING HOPE NOLA: $21k → 23%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $200k → 11%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $60k → 10%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $150k → 11%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $25k → 10%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $125k → 11%Upstate Warrior Solution: $5k → 10%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $100k → 11%Meals on Wheels Collin County: $475k → 5%Meals on Wheels Collin County: $425k → 5%Meals on Wheels Collin County: $400k → 5%CITY CHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY-MCKINNEY: $250k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $200k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS-COLLIN COUNTY: $150k → 5%Citychurch McKinney: $100k → 5%Citychurch McKinney: $100k → 5%CITYCHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY MCKINNEY: $50k → 5%Citychurch McKinney: $50k → 5%The Community Food Pantry of McKinney: $25k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
CA
CO
TN
SC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 14 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$7.6M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+32%

Still filing today

79%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $633k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureInternationalPublic BenefitHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +43%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +6%
  • SI
    SAMARITAN INN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $975k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +35%
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +16%
  • MI
    MISSION ISLA VISTA
    one grant, 2022 · $120k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
4
Servenow

Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.

Human Services
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
International Partnerships Inc

To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.

Religion
7
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
8
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
9
Mission Without Borders Incorporated

Mission Without Borders (MWB) is dedicated to reaching people for Christ through an international network of Christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,…

International
10
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
11
Cbmc International Inc

Our mission is to establish and strengthen cbmc ministries at the national and regional levels across the globe as they engage the marketplace with the gospel of jesus christ and partner with men and women in transformative discipleship…

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12
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Service Organizations Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greenville Center for Creative Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,300,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKSAMARITAN INN INC: $975,000 · OtherSAMARITAN INN INCONE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $625,000 · OtherONE COMMUNITY CHURCHINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $200,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN…MISSION ISLA VISTA: $120,000 · Other+4 more: $232,019 · Other+4 moreMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $1,650,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTYSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $850,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTYCITYCHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY MCKINNEY: $550,000 · Human ServicesCITYCHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY MCKINN…+5 more: $246,000 · Human Services+5 moreTHE HOPE CHURCH OF DETROIT INC: $677,980 · ReligionTHE HOPE CHURCH …American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc: $500,000 · ReligionAmerican Friends…Gamboa Union Ministries: $250,000 · ReligionGamboa Union Min…TRINITY BROADCASTING OF TEXAS: $100,000 · ReligionTRINITY BROADCAS…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,350,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE…Compassion International Incorporated: $400,000 · International+1 more: $7,500 · InternationalPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $250,000 · HealthTHE CHRISTINE D'CLARIO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureGOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $7,700 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,452,019Human Services$3,296,000Religion$1,527,980Public Benefit$1,350,000International$407,500Health$250,000Arts & Culture$162,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $1,650,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,350,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,300,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $975,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $850,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTHE HOPE CHURCH OF DETROIT INC: $677,980 over 5y, 98% of budgetCITYCHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY MCKINNEY: $550,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGamboa Union Ministries: $250,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTRINITY BROADCASTING OF TEXAS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetGOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAgape International Missions: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGiving Hope Inc: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $7,700 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLUE MISSIONS GROUP INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Shell USA Company Fou…Raymond James Charita…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Premier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Premier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Premier Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Premier Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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